I'd strongly advice against that laptop you're considering, unless:1. You have very good reasons why you want to buy this one specifically2. You will use it for only SCR and NOTHING else i.e. no chrome/spotify any other heavy app running in the background.

Why the setup you've given is not really good:

1. The processor is not something impressive (even though it is possibly the best thing of the whole setup). 2 cores nowadays feels a bit lacking... I'd recommend at least 4, do not look at clock speed it barely makes a difference once you go higher than 1.8 GHz if you have the correct #cores

2. 4GB RAM? As I said if you are planning on running SCR without anything else in the background maaaybe but a huge maybe. I mean heck I'd just open chrome and have 1.5G already occupied (I'm a bit weird in that aspect but def not the only one...) I'd not really consider anything less than 8 and if you could I'd recommend 16 that is about you could pay say +$30 and have 16 so why not do that.

3. The NIC.... I'm assuming you'd be playing while connected to your WiFi rather than using an Ethernet cable and if you're planning on getting that WiFi adapter, well... you better use the cable, but honestly for another $5-10 you can get a 802.11 (2x2) and that makes all the difference in the world

4. The GPU is definitely under-performing but that is where it gets a bit trickier, it all depends on what you want to use that laptop for really. And GPUs are the thing that would generally make the machine expensive or cheap.

5. SSD or not it should not make much of a difference, although if you choose to buy something with HDD (the cheaper option) I'd really recommend going for the 7200 rpm ones

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All in all, if you'd be willing to do some research and build your own laptop (yeah maybe a bit too geeky) but you'd be able to rock SCR with all of its enhancement features for maybe about $800-$900.

In general, if you get the laptop you are considering, you might be able to just barely run SCR and enjoy the campaign with many of the enhancements disabled, but I would not really try to play any games that involve other people on such setup.

And I mean, tbh, to play SCR or to browse, I'm pretty certain the linked computer will do just fine. There's no reason to get all the bells and whistles if you're not planning to use them, and if you're just a "SCR + casual web browsing" person any potato will do the job, and I think you've found a fine potato OP.

That being said, there's something to be said about getting a computer that's future-proof, and specifically future-you-proof. So if you see any possibility you'll try other games (e.g. SC2) or if you'll need to run any heavyweight software (I could even imagine Office lagging based on my experience w/ it, though I ditched it long ago so I'm not sure), you should probably try to consider a slightly higher price point. But definitely don't feel pressured to buy something you're sure you won't need!

I have a Lenovo Y510p laptop which is about five years old that I used throughout college for work and gaming, and I occasionally play some SCR or watch replays on it while traveling. In every measurable way it's better than the laptop you are looking at, and it still doesn't run SCR satisfactorily. Remastered is actually way heavier and slower than old 1.16 with Chaoslauncher or similar. My laptop has a quad core i5 processor, 6 GB RAM, dual graphics cards with SLI, etc. It takes a long time to load into the games, which others have noted while spectating. Occasionally it hangs up on the start screen, or the menus load very slowly. If I try to stream, watch Twitch at the same time, or have internet tabs open, it slows down even more. So I can only imagine the laptop you suggested would fare even worse.

Now granted, if your budget is limited, you buy what you can afford. But with computers it makes much more sense to save up and buy a computer which will be capable of handling anything you may want to throw at it in the future. And if you don't need the portability of a laptop, a desktop will give you much better performance for an equal amount of money, and if anything goes wrong with it, you just have to replace the broken piece for cost. My Y510p laptop blew its motherboard at one point, and it took three weeks and $400 in parts and labor for the repair shop to track down the specific discontinued motherboard that fit inside the laptop body. If it had been a desktop, I would have just bought any old $70 replacement board and swapped it out myself. That experience put me off of using laptops as a gaming computer forever. But if you absolutely must have a laptop, I would at least go for something with a quad core processor and an SSD to improve performance.

Well, the OP did not have a budget specified neither had a link to a shop, rather just to the HP specs. And nevertheless if you really want to you could make a stretch and buy components for about 350-400 that will be compatible with most current games, not just SC:R and will also let you run tons of heavy software in the background... But you'd really need to know what you are doing

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I have a Lenovo Y510p laptop which is about five years old that I used throughout college for work and gaming, and I occasionally play some SCR or watch replays on it while traveling. In every measurable way it's better than the laptop you are looking at, and it still doesn't run SCR satisfactorily..